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Lesson
Appropriate contract packaging, stakeholder involvement in project preparation, and reliable cost estimates are of particular importance to successful project implementation. This project encountered several weaknesses in design and preparation that made implementation challenging.

Project Number: 43319-022
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion East-West Economic Corridor Towns Development Project
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Reducing or avoiding implementation delays would require, among others: (i) ensuring that project and/or subproject implementation is a high priority for local governments and counterpart funds are provided in government annual budgets, and (ii) starting resettlement activities as early as possible and providing adequate funds for these activities.

Project Number: 45507-003
Project Name: Yunnan Chuxiong Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Engaging capable design institutes, backed by sufficient budget and time allocations, will result in better quality technical designs that in turn will facilitate construction progress, reduce the need for contract variations, and optimize construction costs. There were significant variations in some of this project's civil works contracts. These variations resulted mainly from poor quality of technical designs, with errors and omissions in the construction drawings.

Project Number: 45507-003
Project Name: Yunnan Chuxiong Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Limited understanding of contractors of complex site conditions impacted their performance, delayed implementation, and often resulted in contract termination; About 30% of the total cost of civil works were contracted before loan signing and over 90% of total contracts awarded by 2014.

Project Number: 38254-053
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Systematic analysis of market capacities and pragmatic cost estimation for better packaging options could avoid procurement delays and rebidding because of poor bidder participation. Considering the remoteness of the project locations and the market capacities, the EA modified contract conditions for sewerage network contracts to attract bidders. Despite modifications, poor response from bidders continued, resulting in repeated rebidding.

Project Number: 38254-053
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Effective procurement plans and strategies require the conduct of relevant market and technical assessments, adequate consultation with pertinent government officials, and appropriate contract packaging. Several procurement issues, including unresponsive bidding, inadequate consulting services, inadequate terms of reference for consultants, etc. occurred mainly because of the technical nature of the goods and works required, which caused some changes in procurement arrangements during implementation.

Project Number: 49113-001
Project Name: Managing Soil Pollution in Ger Areas through Improved On-site Sanitation Project
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For infrastructure investments, establishing contractual provisions on contractor's performance, such as mobilization, staffing, and deployment of equipment and funds strengthen project implementation.

Project Number: 41116-013, 41116-043
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Bidding documents should incorporate specific provisions requiring permanent local representative from foreign contractors to avoid construction delays. The performance of the contractors for the Birgunj ISWM and the Kavre Valley Water Supply Subproject was unsatisfactory in part because they had no local representative.

Project Number: 36188-023
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Advance action and procurement readiness are key to the timely startup and implementation of projects. No major issues or problems were identified in procurement planning, processing, and contract management. Good procurement readiness was achieved, with advance procurement realized for one international competitive bidding civil works contract and one consulting firm contract. Actual contract awards in 2013–2015 were about 62% of the total loan amount, which was above the projected 25%.

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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